Failed to install on OS X

[avioli]

Hi all,
I've searched for "Failed during" in the issues but couldn't find anything so:

I'm on Mac OS X 10.6.7. Got ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.0] on rvm 1.6.10.

Did a ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)" and approved the group change to the proposed directories. Typed in the my admin password. And got this:

... sudo chmod g+w+ ... sudo chgrp staff ... [I've cut down the lines for clarity]

==> Downloading and Installing Homebrew...
share/man/: Cannot extract through symlink share
share/man/man1/: Cannot extract through symlink share
share/man/man1/brew-man.1: Cannot extract through symlink share
share/man/man1/brew.1: Cannot extract through symlink share
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Failed during: /bin/bash -o pipefail -c '/usr/bin/curl -sSfL https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | /usr/bin/tar xz -m --strip 1'
~ $

Tried one more time and got the same result.
Any suggestions or questions?

[adamv]

which ruby ?

But try: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)" if you've installed a custom one.

[avioli]

Doesn't work with the one in /usr/bin/.
That one is ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [universal-darwin10.0]

The "default" rvm ruby is 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18 revision 30909) [x86_64-darwin10.7.0]

[adamv]

See: #3245

[avioli]

Thanks for that. My /usr/local/share/ is a symlink to /usr/share/ as in the thread you posted above, but in that directory there are lots of files.

What should I do? I cannot simply create a fresh, empty folder in /usr/local/ called share.. there might be stuff actually searching for other stuff in there.

At http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#USRLOCALSHARE1 it says the man dir in local/share should be a symlink to the other one.

[adamv]

You may have to bring this up in the mailing list or IRC channel; Homebrew expects a real physical /usr/local/share folder, not a symlink to a system folder, with its own permissions, etc. etc.

[avioli]

Thanks.

[avioli]

It appears that all there is to do with /usr/local/share/ is to put the manual in man/man1/brew*
I've replaced my /usr/local/share symlink with a regular directory.
Installed homebrew and then moved the manual into place in /usr/share/man/man1/brew*
Removed the /usr/local/share/ dir and created a symlink again to /usr/share/